We have Tyler Gates as the guest on our podcast this month (trying to do a monthly guest) a financial advisor for Edward Jones. Our conversation revolves around how individuals should be saving for care and the different products that can help achieve this goal. Some topics we cover: Lack of Savings From Boomers and Older Gen [...]

Today we talk about Winnowing. What the heck is winnowing? Well the definition: Winnowing-- Separating Grain from Chaff Background: Author daughter of 91 yr old mother who had moved from home of 40 years to 1 bedroom retirement apartment. Her mother is in rehab and will be moving to the east coast to be closer to family [...]

For the first podcast of 2019 we did a little digging with three different articles that all revolve around the same topic, why are rural hospitals closing? It seems that many people are getting concerned about this as more isolated older adults whose children have relocated to different parts of the state or country are losing [...]

In the past, we have talked about holidays and senior care from the aspect of what to do in the home during parties and celebrations with an older loved one. To change things up, we thought we would talk about it from our point of view. What happens in the office in the weeks leading [...]

Today, Janet brings up an interesting article she found about readmission rates, urgent care centers, and unneeded ER visits. In Massachusetts, there are employers that are trying to cut health cost, focusing on unneeded ER visits. The focus is to transition unneeded ER visits to the many urgent care centers that are popping up everywhere in [...]